Jordan S Read, PhD
Biography
Bio: Jordan S Read is chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Data Science Branch in the Water Resources Mission Area. Jordan’s data science projects include data visualizations, reproducible workflows, and integrating process knowledge into machine learning methods to improve environmental predictions.
Jordan received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 in environmental fluid mechanics. His dissertation “Physical processes in small temperate lakes” included the study of temperature dynamics and gas fluxes in 40 lakes distributed around the world, as well as the engineering of experimental lake manipulations. Jordan is currently a principal investigator for the Long Term Ecological Research – North Temperate Lakes, is a Lead-PI on a project to modeling climate change impacts on lake temperatures and has served as a steering committee member of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network. Jordan is an associate editor of the journal "Limnology and Oceanography Letters".
Upcoming Publications
Hampton SE, AWE Galloway, SM Powers, T Ozersky, KH Woo, RD Batt, SG Labou, CM O'Reilly, S Sharma, NR Lottig, EH Stanley, RL North, JD Stockwell, RAdrian, GA Weyhenmeyer, L Arvola, HM Baulch, I Bertani, LL Bowman, CC Carey, J Catalan, W Colom‐Montero, LM Domine, M Felip, I Granados, C Gries, HP Grossart, J Haberman, M Haldna, B Hayden, SN Higgins, JC Jolley, KK Kahilainen, E Kaup, MJ Kehoe, S MacIntyre, AW Mackay, HL Mariash, RM McKay, B Nixdorf, P Nõges, T Nõges, M Palmer, DC Pierson, DM Post, MJ Pruett, M Rautio, JS Read, SL Roberts, J Rücker, S Sadro, EA Silow, DE Smith, RW Sterner, GEA Swann, MA Timofeyev, M Toro, MR Twiss, RJ Vogt, SB Watson, EJ Whiteford, MA Xenopoulos. 2017. Ecology Under Lake Ice. Ecology Letters. 20: 98-111. doi:10.1111/ele.12699
Science and Products
Water Data Visualizations
Water data visualizations are provocative visuals and captivating stories that inform, inspire, and empower people to address our Nation's most pressing water issues. USGS data science and visualization experts use visualizations to communicate water data in compelling and often interactive ways when static images or written narrative can’t effectively communicate the interconnectivity and...
Webinar: Variable Warming in Lakes of the Upper Midwest and Implications for Sport Fish
Check out this webinar to learn more about how warming temperatures are affecting lakes in the Midwest and the fish they support.
Fish Habitat Restoration to Promote Adaptation: Resilience of Sport Fish in Lakes of the Upper Midwest
Many Midwestern lakes are experiencing warming water temperatures as a result of climate change. In general, this change is causing coldwater fish species such as cisco and coolwater species such as walleye to decline. Meanwhile, warmer water species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass are increasing as temperatures warm. However, some fish populations are more vulnerable to these changes...
Developing Adaptation Strategies for Recreational and Tribal Fisheries in the Upper Midwest
Fisheries in the glacial lakes region of the upper Midwest are culturally, economically, and recreationally beneficial. Walleye, for instance, represent an important subsistence food source for some Wisconsin tribal nations and are also popular among recreational anglers. However, predicted ecological changes to these aquatic communities, such as an increase in invasive fish species, a...
sbtools: An R package for ScienceBase
Science is an increasingly collaborative endeavor. In an era of Web-enabled research, new tools reduce barriers to collaboration across traditional geographic and disciplinary divides and improve the quality and efficiency of science. Collaborative online code management has moved project collaboration from a manual process of email and thumb drives into a traceable, streamlined system where...
Continental-scale overview of stream primary productivity, its links to water quality, and consequences for aquatic carbon biogeochemistry
Streams and rivers have a limited spatial extent, but are increasingly recognized as key components of regional biogeochemical cycles. The collective metabolic processing of organisms, known as ecosystem metabolism, is centrally important to nutrient cycling and carbon fluxes in these environments, but is poorly integrated into emerging biogeochemical concepts. This line of inquiry lags behind...
Ecological forecasting—21st century science for 21st century management
Natural resource managers are coping with rapid changes in both environmental conditions and ecosystems. Enabled by recent advances in data collection and assimilation, short-term ecological forecasting may be a powerful tool to help resource managers anticipate impending near-term changes in ecosystem conditions or dynamics. Managers may use the...
Bradford, John B.; Weltzin, Jake F.; Mccormick, Molly; Baron, Jill; Bowen, Zack; Bristol, Sky; Carlisle, Daren; Crimmins, Theresa; Cross, Paul; DeVivo, Joe; Dietze, Mike; Freeman, Mary; Goldberg, Jason; Hooten, Mevin; Hsu, Leslie; Jenni, Karen; Keisman, Jennifer; Kennen, Jonathan; Lee, Kathy; Lesmes, David; Loftin, Keith; Miller, Brian W.; Murdoch, Peter; Newman, Jana; Prentice, Karen L.; Rangwala, Imtiaz; Read, Jordan; Sieracki, Jennifer; Sofaer, Helen; Thur, Steve; Toevs, Gordon; Werner, Francisco; White, C. LeAnn; White, Timothy; Wiltermuth, MarkProcess-guided deep learning predictions of lake water temperature
The rapid growth of data in water resources has created new opportunities to accelerate knowledge discovery with the use of advanced deep learning tools. Hybrid models that integrate theory with state‐of‐the art empirical techniques have the potential to improve predictions while remaining true to physical laws. This paper evaluates the Process‐...
Read, Jordan S.; Jia, Xiaowei; Willard, Jared; Appling, Alison P.; Zwart, Jacob Aaron; Oliver, Samantha; Karpatne, Anuj; Hansen, Gretchen JA; Hanson, Paul C.; Watkins, William; Steinbach, Michael; Kumar, VipinMetabolic rhythms in flowing waters: An approach for classifying river productivity regimes
Although seasonal patterns of ecosystem productivity have been extensively described and analyzed with respect to their primary forcings in terrestrial and marine systems, comparatively little is known about these same processes in rivers. However, it is now possible to perform a large‐scale synthesis on the patterns and drivers of river...
Savoy, Philip; Bernhardt, Emily S.; Appling, Alison P.; Heffernan, James B.; Stets, Edward G.; Read, Jordan S.; Harvey, JudsonA General Lake Model (GLM 3.0) for linking with high-frequency sensor data from the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)
The General Lake Model (GLM) is a one-dimensional open-source code designed to simulate the hydrodynamics of lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. GLM was developed to support the science needs of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), a network of researchers using sensors to understand lake functioning and address questions about how...
Hipsey, Matthew R.; Bruce, Louise C.; Boon, Casper; Busch, Brendan; Carey, Cayelan C.; Hamilton, David P.; Hanson, Paul C.; Read, Jordan S.; de Sousa, Eduardo; Weber, Michael; Winslow, Luke A.The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States
A national-scale quantification of metabolic energy flow in streams and rivers can improve understanding of the temporal dynamics of in-stream activity, links between energy cycling and ecosystem services, and the effects of human activities on aquatic metabolism. The two dominant terms in aquatic metabolism, gross primary production (GPP) and...
Appling, Alison P.; Read, Jordan S.; Winslow, Luke A.; Arroita, Maite; Bernhardt, Emily S.; Griffiths, Natalie A.; Hall, Robert O.; Harvey, Judson W.; Heffernan, James B.; Stanley, Emily H.; Stets, Edward G.; Yackulic, Charles B.The metabolic regimes of flowing waters
The processes and biomass that characterize any ecosystem are fundamentally constrained by the total amount of energy that is either fixed within or delivered across its boundaries. Ultimately, ecosystems may be understood and classified by their rates of total and net productivity and by the seasonal patterns of photosynthesis and respiration....
Bernhardt, Emily S.; Heffernan, Jim B.; Grimm, Nancy B.; Stanley, Emily H.; Harvey, Judson; Arroita, M.; Appling, Alison P.; Cohen, M.J.; McDowell, William H.; Hall, R.O.; Read, Jordan S.; Roberts, B.J.; Stets, Edward G.; Yackulic, Charles B.Evaluating the “Gradual Entrainment Lake Inverter” (GELI) artificial mixing technology for lake and reservoir management
Thermal stratification is important to the structure and function of lake and reservoir ecosystems. Yet when lakes undergo eutrophication, thermal stratification can exacerbate water quality problems. As a result, lake management has sometimes involved artificial mixing and destratification, though the available technologies are few and costly. It...
Smith, Colin A; Read, Jordan; Vander Zanden, M JakeLarge-scale modeled contemporary and future water temperature estimates for 10774 Midwestern U.S. Lakes
Climate change has already influenced lake temperatures globally, but understanding future change is challenging. The response of lakes to changing climate drivers is complex due to the nature of lake-atmosphere coupling, ice cover, and stratification. To better understand the diversity of lake responses to climate change and give managers insight...
Winslow, Luke A.; Hansen, Gretchen J. A.; Read, Jordan S.; Notaro, MichaelSeasonality of change: Summer warming rates do not fully represent effects of climate change on lake temperatures
Responses in lake temperatures to climate warming have primarily been characterized using seasonal metrics of surface-water temperatures such as summertime or stratified period average temperatures. However, climate warming may not affect water temperatures equally across seasons or depths. We analyzed a long-term dataset (1981–2015) of biweekly...
Winslow, Luke; Read, Jordan S.; Hansen, Gretchen J. A.; Rose, Kevin C.; Robertson, Dale M.Grand challenges for integrated USGS science—A workshop report
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a long history of advancing the traditional Earth science disciplines and identifying opportunities to integrate USGS science across disciplines to address complex societal problems. The USGS science strategy for 2007–2017 laid out key challenges in disciplinary and interdisciplinary arenas,...
Jenni, Karen E.; Goldhaber, Martin B.; Betancourt, Julio L.; Baron, Jill S.; Bristol, Sky; Cantrill, Mary; Exter, Paul E.; Focazio, Michael J.; Haines, John W.; Hay, Lauren E.; Hsu, Leslie; Labson, Victor F.; Lafferty, Kevin D.; Ludwig, K.A.; Milly, Paul C. D.; Morelli, Toni L.; Morman, Suzette A.; Nassar, Nedal T.; Newman, Timothy R.; Ostroff, Andrea C. ; Read, Jordan S.; Reed, Sasha C.; Shapiro, Carl D.; Smith, Richard A.; Sanford, Ward E.; Sohl, Terry L.; Stets, Edward G.; Terando, Adam J.; Tillitt, Donald E.; Tischler, Michael A.; Toccalino, Patricia L.; Wald, David J.; Waldrop, Mark P.; Wein, Anne; Weltzin, Jake F.; Zimmerman, Christian E.Water quality data for national-scale aquatic research: The Water Quality Portal
Aquatic systems are critical to food, security, and society. But, water data are collected by hundreds of research groups and organizations, many of which use nonstandard or inconsistent data descriptions and dissemination, and disparities across different types of water observation systems represent a major challenge for freshwater research. To...
Read, Emily K.; Carr, Lindsay; DeCicco, Laura A.; Dugan, Hilary; Hanson, Paul C.; Hart, Julia A.; Kreft, James; Read, Jordan S.; Winslow, LukeMeteorological drivers of hypolimnetic anoxia in a eutrophic, north temperate lake
Oxygen concentration is both an indicator and driver of water quality in lakes. Decreases in oxygen concentration leads to altered ecosystem function as well as harmful consequences for aquatic biota, such as fishes. The responses of oxygen dynamics in lakes to climate-related drivers, such as temperature and wind speed, are well documented for...
Snortheim, Craig A.; Hanson, Paul C.; McMahon, Katherine D.; Read, Jordan S.; Carey, Cayelan C.; Dugan, HilaryPre-USGS Publications
Warmer Waters From Climate Change Could Impact Sport Fish Communities in Midwestern Lakes
A recent study looks at the impact of climate change on certain fish in Wisconsin lakes.